Take Your Nails from Grinch to Gorgeous with This Holiday Nail Art How-To

Blogger Kerry wants to help us get our nails into the holiday spirit with a work of nail art in today’s guest post.

I love winter. Hot cocoa, scarves, fireplaces, snow, Christmas music and movies, and the opportunity to get away with crazy nail art. I love using glitter during the winter months — I think thereâ€™s just something special about the way it sparkles in the winter sun. Today, however, I want to show you a simple nail design that I love to rock the week before Christmas. This is an unexpected nail look thatâ€™s fun yet understated.

NOTE: The links in here are just to show you what products I used, and not to recommend the particular sites. I purchased everything shown here at Five Below, Ulta, and Walgreens.

Once thatâ€™s dry, apply two coats of red polish. I used ORLYâ€™s Monroeâ€™s Red because itâ€™s a bright Christmas-y color. If you find that the color clashes with your skin tone, use any red that you like. For this design, though, I think itâ€™s better to stick to creams than shimmers. Monroeâ€™s Red does have the subtlest of subtle red shimmer, but you really canâ€™t see it unless you get millimeters away from my nails in the sunlight.

Now for the fun part. Using white polish (Iâ€™m using a striper from Color Club), draw a line down the center of your ring fingernail.

Now, take your favorite black polish. Here, I used the striper from Color Club. If you donâ€™t have a striper, no worries — just grab your fave black polish and a fine-tipped paint brush. Draw a line horizontally across the middle of your ring fingernail. Make it thicker than the striping brush itself, but not too thick. Let these two colors dry for a bit, so the next color doesnâ€™t smear the two previous ones.

No, I actually did this and e-mailed the idea to Karen long before Julie posted that video. It’s funny you mention it — I wrote a comment on there that said something like “I just did a Santa belly like that on my nails a few weeks ago!”
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